Lingnan University e-News

Campus news

• Lingnan University Spring Festival 2013
• Chinese New Year Media Reception 2013
• A Day at Lingnan University for Primary School Students
• Red-Grey Wish Fundraising Campaign
• The “6th Matching Grant Scheme”
• CEAL launches English Language Support Service
• Lingather Programme 2013: Alumni Career Advising Night

Research and academic activities

• Conference on “The Korean Peninsula: Assessing Prospects for Change”
• Seminar on "Hong Kong Architecture Styles of the 1950s"
• Public seminar on “Ye Si and Hong Kong Literature”
• Seminar on “What the Mainland Writers could learn from Hong Kong Literature” by Prof Kubin

Awards and people

• Lingnan University Vice-President Prof Jesús Seade conferred the title of Senior Fellow of Asian College of Knowledge Management
• Memorial services for Prof Leung Ping-kwan (Ye Si)
• Award presentation ceremony of Mainland Summer Internship Programmes 2012
• Lingnan Taekwondo Team gets championship of Tuen Mun Taekwondo Inter-Team Competition 2012
• Excellent results for Lingnan University Rugby Team at open tournaments

Publications

• The 14th Volume of “Slant”
• Office of Service-learning Annual Report 2011/2012
• Bachelor of Social Sciences (Hon) launches e-news
• The 33rd Volume of “Cultural Studies@Lingnan”

Upcoming events

• Seminar on “Life of Pi – Philosophy, Literature and Film” (2 March 2013)
• Life and Death Film Screening – “Declaration of War” (4 March 2013)
• Lingnan Arts Festival 2013 (4-22 March 2013)
• Seminar on "Leadership Challenges in Managing Talent — Case: Bob Knowlton A" (6 March 2013)
• Seminar on "Clerks, Crooks and Combatants: The Untold Stories of British Non-Elites in Occupied Egypt, 1882-1922" (6 March 2013)
• The 45th Lingnan University Sports Day (7 March 2013)
• The 1st University Assembly of Term 2, 2012/13 (11 March 2013)
• Seminar on "Inventory Control with Piece-wise Linear Convex Variable Production Cost and Fixed Cost" (18 March 2013)
• The Hong Kong Jockey Club Distinguished Visiting Professorship of Modern Chinese Literature at Lingnan 2013 Opening Ceremony cum Public Lecture on “Passion that Breaks Through Hong Kong’s Mercantilism ─ on Two Films and the “June Fourth” (20 March 2013)
• Inaugural Lecture on “Population Ageing in the Asia Pacific: Challenges and Lessons Learned to Move Forward with an Active Ageing Policy Framework” (22 March 2013)
• Lecture on “A Day in the Life of a Happy Worker” (25 March 2013)
• Vincent Woo Distinguished Visiting Scholar Programme 2012-13 Public Lecture on "Everyday Aesthetics and World-Making" (26 March 2013)
• The 4th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning “Service-Learning as a Bridge from Local to Global: Connected World, Connected Future” (4-7 June 2013)